Do songs on Ipods degrade? It seems for about 1 in every 5 songs, it now cuts out and rolls to the next song before the first song is done. Recent development. Do I need to delete the whole thing and load the songs again?
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I've had the same loop of 70's tripe on the same damn IPod for 10 years..
No degradation, although I am so damn tired of "Color My World" I could scream.
Hard Drives and memory can degrade over time so, the area where some songs are located on the drive/memory the physical media itself may become slightly damaged or corrupted. If it's really 1/5 songs where it's happening, you may want to reformat/reset to factory settings and reload all the songs through iTunes and see if that changes anything.
It's also possible (and more likely) that iTunes being what it is, may have damaged the files in a sync process, so again, I'd reformat the iPod and start over to see if that fixes it.
How old of an iPod is it?
Nano 2, had it forever
the songs on Itunes seem fine, and it is a lot more than the last 3 seconds that are lost.
Ran it again yesterday, I exaggerated with every 5th song, more like every once in awhile.
Gonna try cleaning the whole thing out and starting from scratch. Needed to add more Lorde to the playlist anyway.
Any chance that ding-dong 'shake' to change songs is a factor?
That is, by far, the worst problem I have with my iPod. It seems overly sensitive.
I'd rather not have that feature/function, but I've never seen a way to turn it off.
